| | | | | | | | | | JLL's 2026 Global Data Center Outlook report highlights a massive $3 trillion supercycle in data center infrastructure, driven by AI, cloud expansion, and geographic distribution, with capacity expected to double by 2030 amid energy constraints. |
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| | | | | | Sponsored | | Mike Obradovitch of Ecolab explains why smart water management is ultimately a combination of planning, technology, and continuous optimization. |
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| | | | | | As 2026 begins, the AI data center boom looks intact, but its assumptions are under a degree of quiet stress. |
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Sponsored | | Each month Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Pkaza, posts some of the hottest data center career opportunities in the market. Here’s a look at some of the latest data center jobs posted on the Data Center Frontier jobs board, powered by Pkaza Critical Facilities Recruiting. |
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| | | | | | | | Project Stargate moved from concept to execution in 2025 as OpenAI began assembling a multi-gigawatt AI infrastructure portfolio across the U.S. and abroad. With SoftBank’s acquisition of DigitalBridge, the initiative gains deeper infrastructure alignment, highlighting how power, capital, and delivery... |
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| | As the data center industry heads into 2026, AI is no longer just driving demand. It is reshaping power, cooling, site selection, and public scrutiny. This in-depth forecast examines how AI factories are diverging from general-purpose data centers, why utilities are becoming co-architects, and how capital... |
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| | 2025 revealed how data center outages, from fires and mechanical failures to hyperscale cloud region events, can cascade quickly in an AI-driven world, highlighting the growing importance of physical resilience, control-plane reliability, and clean recovery. |
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| | | | | | | | As artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) design criteria continue to evolve, today’s data center operators face a new challenge: engineering facilities capable of handling extreme density, variable workloads, and rapid hardware refresh cycles. Faced with rapid innovation... |
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| | | | | | | | DCF sat down with Kevin Ooley, CFO of DataBank, for a wide-ranging conversation on how capital structure, lender confidence, and disciplined development strategy are shaping the operator's growth trajectory in an AI-driven market. |
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| | | | | EDITOR'S PICKS by Matt V. |
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| | DCF Editor-at-Large Melissa Reali weighs in with her data center industry trends forecast and predictions for next year. |
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| | Starcloud’s successful deployment of an orbital AI data center marks a pivotal test for space-based data center infrastructure, exploring how off-planet compute could address the power, cooling, land, and sustainability constraints facing AI data centers on Earth, while leaving key questions around ... |
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| | Google’s new TPU generations, including Trillium and Ironwood, are emerging as the strongest challenge yet to Nvidia’s GPU leadership, backed by a growing AI Hypercomputer ecosystem. |
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